Contents:
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
- 'GOODBYE, DAD': FATHER DISOWNS GAY SON WH SHOCKGLY HEARTLS LETTER
- GAY FATHERS WHO COME OUT MID-LIFE
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
LUCIE - Comg out as gay is hard, but g out as gay to your Mormon dad is really Swk was preparg to go on his first missn trip wh the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats when he cid to reveal the news that he was gay to his dad, Vghn Swk.
'GOODBYE, DAD': FATHER DISOWNS GAY SON WH SHOCKGLY HEARTLS LETTER
He cid to vio rerd his g out to his dad, and posted the reactn the vio above to see how Swk’s dad reacted to him g out as gay. For gay, bi, and queer sons, who may grow up wh the sense that somethg about their masculy is different, your reassurance means the world.
“It's the words that you say that bee the thoughts their heads, ” Flor a recent study, published the Journal of Pediatric Healthre, Flor and his lleagu terviewed 30 gay, bisexual, and queer cisgenr teen boys on their munitn wh their parents about sexualy. Aga and aga, the boys emphasized the importance of an open and ongog clive nversatn about sexualy, one that acknowledg the existence of gay sex. No matter how awkward, the nversatns signaled that ’s okay to e to mom or dad, that they n nfi their parents, and that they n ask them qutns — even before turng to iends or the nversatns are all the more ccial the era of “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, one terviewee noted.
GAY FATHERS WHO COME OUT MID-LIFE
”Among the biggt securi a gay, bisexual, or queer boy has: that g out will dispt his relatnship wh you. ”In his Journal of Pediatric Healthre study, Flor found that was important to gay, bi, and queer youth that their parents acknowledged sex and were open to clive nversatns about — the discsns helped remove some of the stigma of gay sex and rerced the ia that home is a safe environment.
”Chanc are, you’ve msed up the past — lghed at a homophobic joke on televisn, ma a remark about a man’s feme cloth or prentatn, or reacted wh disfort to nversatns about same-sex relatnships or sex. Not Nate's a letter that was posted this morng to Facebook by the pro-gay clothg and accsory brand FCKH8, the unintified father wr his son an spiratnal letter of acceptance after accintally overhearg his exprs ncerns about g out to his letter is transcribed below (urty of Towleroad):Nate, I overheard your phone nversatn wh Mike last night about your plans to e out to me. I've known you were gay sce you were six, I've loved you sce you were born.
The harsht cricism om the LBGTQ muny, as if you’re only legimately gay if you knew by the time you were 20.